REGINA — As Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe prepares to go to China next week, he said he would like the federal government to drop its 100 per cent electric vehicle tariff on Beijing.

“From Saskatchewan’s perspective, I would say, ‘Yes, let’s remove the EV tariffs,’” he told reporters Tuesday.

But, he added, there’s a big caveat around making sure that Canada stays on good terms with the United States.

“We need to ensure that we are balancing off all the direct and indirect costs of (removing the EV tariff), because our largest canola market still remains to be the United States of America.”

Moe's comments come as a Chinese tariff of nearly 76 per cent remains in force on Canadian canola seed, a measure that has slashed the value of one of Canada's — and Saskatchewan's — most valuable

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